What is prognostic type of research?

Answer 1

Prognosis in clinical practice can be defined as a prediction of the course or outcome of a certain illness, in certain patient. Although prognoses are all around us such as weather forcasts and corporation finance projections, the word has a medical connotation. After setting a diagnosis and perhaps making a statement on the surmised etiology of the patient's illness making a prognosis is the next challenge to both patients and physicians. Although perhaps obvious, it must be stressed that a person does not required an established illness or disease to have a prognosis. For instance, life expectancy typically is a prognosis relevant to all human beings diseased or non-diseased. In medical context and of clinical epidemiology, however, prognosis is commonly defined as the course and outcome of a given illness in an individual patient. (By Javid Mir)